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1976
 
     
14-year-old Jodie Foster stars as a drug-addicted child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver        
1976
 
     
Mary Leakey and her team find footprints, about 3.6 million years old, of bipedal hominids walking upright at Laetoli in Tanzania        
1976
 
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The UN entrusts the Western Sahara to joint administration by Morocco and Mauritania     
1976
 
     
The British public is outraged to discover that the Tate Gallery has spent money purchasing Carl Andre's arrangement of bricks, Equivalent VIII        
1976
 
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A guerrilla movement, with Rhodesian backing, launches a long civil war against Frelimo in Mozambique      
1976
 
    
A military coup in Argentina brings to an end the two-year presidency of Juan Perón's widow, Isabelita       
1976
 
   
Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony      
1976
 
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The Polisario, as a government-in-exile in Algeria, proclaim the independence of Western Sahara as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic       
1976
 
    
Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London,       
1976
 
    
Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music